U+11C7E "饝本" Marchen Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饝本
U+11C7E "饝本" Marchen Letter Pa is a glyph representing a consonant in the Marchen script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used to write the Zhangzhung language and Tibetan Buddhist texts in the Himalayan region. This specific character corresponds to the sound "pa" and is part of the Unicode Standard's Marchen block, which was added to support the encoding of this historically significant script for digital preservation and scholarly research. The character appears as a sweeping, calligraphic symbol typical of the script's curvilinear and ligatured style, helping to record and transmit the sacred and ritualistic literature of the ancient Zhangzhung culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C7E |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Letter Pa |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑱾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑱾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB1 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc7e |